Casting blame is no solution

11:51 PM,
Mar. 31, 2013

Written by

Cliff
RAWLEY

The opinion poll in the News-Leader issue of March 6 asked, "Who do you blame for the sequester?"

Here were the results: the Republicans 40.8 percent and the president 58.3 percent. Casting blame is popular. Radio and TV talk shows love to debate where the blame will stick.

Can we go beyond casting blame? Is blame our new national pastime? When blame is attached, what does this solve? All political parties manipulate the news to make the other group look like the culprit. What a tremendous waste of energy and time. Will our next elections be based upon the negative assessment of who is most ...